Agent-Based Manufacturing
Subtitle: Advances in the Holonic Approach
By: edited by S. M. Deen
Series: Advanced Information Processing; Advanced Information Processing
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9783642078958; 9783662056240
Subjects: Industrial engineering; Computer science; Artificial intelligence
Description: Low-volume high-variety products like personalized cars or customized engines will be the key issues for manufacturing in the 21st century. The necessary control technology is based on the concept of holons, which are the units of production and behave as autonomous and cooperative agents, providing flexibility, adaptability, agility, and dynamic reconfigurability. This book presents the latest research results in agent-based manufacturing as carried out by researchers in academia and industry within the international "Holonic Manufacturing Systems" project. As this project was driven by industry, the results presented here are of vital interest not just to researchers in agent technologies or distributed artificial intelligence, but also to engineers and professionals in industry who have to respond to rapid changes and new demands in production.
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Table of contents: title: Part I. Starters: (1) Introduction. (2) From Fractals to Bionics to Holonics. (3) From FMS to HMS; title: Part II. Systems Architecture: (4) HMS/FB Architecture and Its Implementation. (5) FIPA Standards and Holonic Manufacturing. (6) Towards a Formalized HMS Model; title: Part III. Systems Operation: (7) A Computational Model for HMS. (8) An HMS Operational Model. (9) Holonic Diagnostics for an Automotive Assembly Line; title: Part IV. Application Environments and Issues: (10) HMS Development and Implementation Environment. (11) Transport Agents Specification and Development. (12) A Holonic Shot Blasting System. (13) Holonic Manufacturing Control: Rationale, Developments, and Open Issues.